Covered Vase

ca. 1781

Charles-Eloi Asselin, Decorator Henri-Martin Prévost, Decorator Jean-Pierre Boulanger, Decorator Jacques-François Paris, Designer + 1 more

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Title Covered Vase

Artwork Date ca. 1781

Makers Charles-Eloi Asselin (Decorator) French, 1742-1803 Henri-Martin Prévost (Decorator) French, 1739-1797 Jean-Pierre Boulanger (Decorator) French, 1722-1785 Jacques-François Paris (Designer) French, 1735-1797 Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer) French, active 1756 - present

Medium Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding

Dimensions Overall: 15 3/4 × 7 3/4 × 6 1/8 inches (40 × 19.7 × 15.6 cm) Overall (vase): 13 1/4 × 7 3/4 × 6 1/8 inches (33.7 × 19.7 × 15.6 cm) Overall (cover): 2 15/16 × 4 1/4 inches (7.5 × 10.8 cm) Overall (base): 2 1/16 × 6 1/4 × 6 1/4 inches (5.2 × 15.9 × 15.9 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 71.262

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Marks Marks, underneath plinth, in blue enamel: [interlaced L's above mark for gilder Boulanger] [in gold: mark for gilder Prévost] Incised, on base of plinth: 10.A Incised, inside neck: 10.A

Provenance

Maria Feodorovna [1759-1828], Empress of Russia

Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich [1798-1849]

Grand Duke Constantin Nikolaievich [1827-1892]

Grand Duchess Alexandra Iossifovna [1830-1911]

Grand Duke Constantin Constantinovich [1858-1915]

until ca. 1930, government of the Soviet Union (USSR)

(Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA)

1932, purchased by Anna Thomson Dodge (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

1971-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Sèvres Archives Vj, 2.f.16, VI 1.f.169, Vy8, f.181

Benois, A.N., and A.V. Prakhof. Les trésors d'art en Russie, 7 vols. St. Petersburg, 1901-1907, vol 7, p. 226, pl. 131.

A Catalogue of Works of Art in the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge. Detroit, 1933, n.p.

Winokur, Ronald L. "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 50, no. 3 (1971): pp. 43–51.

Darr, A.P. European Decorative Arts from Royal Collections. Exh. cat., University Liggett School. Grosse Pointe, 1981, (ill.), p. 25 (fig. 008).

Dauterman, C.C. "Sèvres Figure Painting in the Anna Thomson Dodge Collection." The Burlington Magazine 118 (November 1976): p. 761 (fig. 46).

Savill, R. The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of the Sèvres Porcelain, 3 vols. London, 1988, vol. 1, p. 437, 445, no. 21.

Madame de Pompadour et la Floraison des Arts. Exh. cat., Musée David M. Stewart. Montreal, 1988, p. 122.

Ennès, P. "The visit of the Comte and Comtesse du Nord to the Sèvres Facotry."Apollo 127 (March 1989): p. 222.

Dell, T. et al The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-Century French and English Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York and Detroit, 1996, pp. 179-180, no. 52 (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory; Jacques-François Paris; Charles-Eloi Asselin; et al., Covered Vase, ca. 1781, soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.262.